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Locating the fellings. — For locating fellings rules have 

 been formulated which are to be found in most works on 

 sylviculture. These rules, although theoretically occupying 

 an important place in organised forest working, are not, 

 however, always applicable, especially in the case of irre- 

 gular forests worked by the selection method. They may be 

 stated as follows : — 



(1) The fellings should be adjacent and succeed one 



another in the order in which made, and should 

 have the most regular form possible. 



(2) They should be so located that the produce of an 



area in course of exploitation need not be 

 carried through the young crops in the portions 

 of the forest recently felled. 



(3) They should proceed from the side least exposed 



in a direction contrary to that of the prevail- 

 ing dangerous winds. 



(4) On steep slopes the fellings should be commenced 



at the bottom. 



(5) In hill forests the coupes should be long and nar- 



row in form, and have their longest sides per- 

 pendicular to the direction of the dangerous 

 winds. 



Nature of the fellings The nature of the fellings to be 



made depends on the permanent or temporary method of 

 treatment and may be explained by a single term. A list 

 of the various fellings has already been given in connec- 

 tion with the methods of treatment. But, in the irregular con- 

 dition of the forests in this country and owing to the want 

 of well-known methods of cultural treatment applicable 

 to them, it is always well to indicate briefly the more im- 

 portant points connected with the application of the fellings. 

 This may be done by a few remarks in the statement of 

 fellings itself, or in a separate note ; or the detailed descrip- 

 tions of the forest may be referred to, and such suggestions 

 as are likely to prove useful to the executive oflBcers may be 

 entered in the remarks column of the statement for each 

 compartment or block. 



Material to be removed.— The possibility, as calculated by 

 one or other of the methods to be explained hereafter, should 

 be prescribed for the length of time for which the detailed 

 statement of fellings is drawn up, and it may possibly be 

 subject to revision during that period. 



